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Allusion

Allusion. Level 4. Definition of Allusion. A poetic device An allusion is a reference, within a literary work, to another work of fiction, a film, a piece of art, or even a real event. http://fictionwriting.about.com/od/glossary/g/allusion.htm

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Allusion

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  1. Allusion Level 4

  2. Definition of Allusion • A poetic device • An allusion is a reference, within a literary work, to another work of fiction, a film, a piece of art, or even a real event. http://fictionwriting.about.com/od/glossary/g/allusion.htm • They are used to link concepts that the reader already has knowledge of with concepts of discussed in the story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allusion

  3. Examples • Describing someone as a "Romeo" makes an allusion to the famous young lover in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. • Darla didn’t like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she was thrifty.

  4. to meet one’s Waterloo (allusion on Napoleons defeat in the Battle of Waterloo) • to wash one’s hands of it. (allusion on Pontius Pilatus, who sentenced Jesus to death, but washed his hands afterwards to demonstrate that he was not to blame for it.) • to be as old as Methuselah (allusion on Joseph’s grandfather, who was 969 years old according to the Old Testament) http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/writing/style/allusion

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